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This Guide meets the following English Language Arts

Common Core State Standards:

R.L.3.1

R.L.3.2

R.L.3.10


Part One:

Teaching Notes


Suggestions for Use:

In order to analyze plot, understand characters,

appreciate illustrations, and uncover the moral or message of folktales, students must first have a good understanding of the characteristics of all folktales and the subtle characteristics of the five types of folktales: legend, myth, tall tale, fable, & fairy tale.

Use these forms to help your students recognize the similarities between all folktales and the small differences that distinguish each of the five types

of folktales. This helps to build a strand of consistency that unites a Folktale Unit involving

several texts while encouraging the close reading necessary to meet additional Common Core State Standards.


Similarities between ALL Folktales =

• Told over and over again orally before ever

being written down

• No known original author

• Exist in every culture

Five Types of Folktales =

• Legend

• Myth

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Fairy Tale

Suggested Texts=

Legend—Legend of the Bluebonnet

Myth—Yi and the Ten Suns

Tall Tale—Paul Bunyan

Fable—The Tortoise and the Hare

Fairy Tale—Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters


Part Two:

Student Handouts


Name ____________________________________________

1. Legends have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that we read that makes it a legend.

Caption: I know this is a legend because _____________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________.


Name ____________________________________________

1. Myths have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that we read that makes it a myth.

Caption: I know this is a myth because _____________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________.


Name ____________________________________________

1. Tall Tales have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that we read that makes it a tall tale.

Caption: I know this is a tall tale because _____________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________.


Name ____________________________________________

1. Fables have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that we read that makes it a fable.

Caption: I know this is a fable because _____________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________.


Name ____________________________________________

1. Fairy Tales have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that we read that makes it a fairy tale.

Caption: I know this is a fairy tale because ___________________________

_____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________.


Part Three:

Teacher Answer Keys


Name ____________________________________________Teacher Key

1. Legends have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

Characters are “everyday” people

No specific setting

Explains how something in nature came to be

Has some sort of magic

2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that we read that makes it a legend.

Illustrations will vary based on the story chosen.

Caption: I know this is a legend because _____________________________

_________ Answers will vary based on the story chosen. _____________

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Name ____________________________________________Teacher Key

1. Myths have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

Characters are gods/goddesses

No specific setting

Explains how something in nature came to be


2. Draw and provide a caption for one characteristic from the story that

we read that makes it a myth.


Caption: I know this is a myth because _____________________________



Name ___________________________________________ Teacher Key

1. Tall Tales have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

Characters are “everyday” people with super-human abilities

Specific Setting linked to a Specific Time in History

Uses Hyperbole

Funny Solution


we read that makes it a tall tale.


Caption: I know this is a tall tale because _____________________________


____________________________________________________________.


Name ____________________________________________Teacher Key

1. Fables have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

Characters are animals

Setting is Outside

Trickster

Ends with a Moral


we read that makes it a fable.


Caption: I know this is a fable because _____________________________



Name ____________________________________________Teacher Key

1. Fairy Tales have specific characteristics. List four of them here.

Characters are Royal

Setting is the Castle or Kingdom

Good vs. Evil



we read that makes it a fairy tale.


Caption: I know this is a Fairy Tale because ___________________________



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